It is time to start to look behind doors, in drawers and in cabinets as you get your house ready for sale. When a potential buyer visits your house, they will want to look at what storage space is available to them and for their belongings. While you cannot make more space available than you actually have without a remodel expense, you will want to make the most out of the storage spaces you have in your home.

Start with cleaning out these areas, straightening shelves and organizing closet space and the items that you have stored there. The first improvement starts with getting rid of excess and unused items. The number one rule of organization is if you have not used, worn, or even considered an item for a period equal to or greater than three years, get rid of it. This is not to say that an item’s useful life is over; you can always donate items of value to others in need. If there is no useful life, time to toss it.

It’s funny thing about storage spaces. When we moved into our home, it was three times the size of our original home. We said to ourselves that we would never be able to fill it. However, human nature is that once we get an item, we would rather pack it away and never think of it again, much less ever use it again than to part with it. Now our closets and storage spaces are packed full of items that would never make the cut using the rule above.

You have to take a stand and get tough when it come to your stuff. Start with the easy items and the harder decisions will get easier as you start to see the back of cabinets and closets that have long since been obscured from site. Clothes are the best place to start. If you have not lost enough weight to wear that suit or dress in the past three years, chances are you will someday (ever the optimist) but the style or color will not be in fashion. Besides, you will want to reward you loss with new fashions anyway, right?

Don’t forget the refrigerator, freezer, kid’s toy chests, under the bed, the attic, basement storage, under the stairs and the garage. All of these areas are magnets for clutter.

Move on to the cabinets under sinks, built-in storage areas, armoires, etc. Get rid of all the outdated and expired medications, cosmetics, suntan lotions and hotel soaps and shampoos. As you begin to see boxes of donations grow and your trash can filling, you can rest easy knowing that you are also seeing the storage space increase as well.

And so will any potential buyers as well!

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